Trump intelligence adviser previously helped father pursue millions from Kremlin-linked bank, leaked documents show
Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, a Trump administration adviser on intelligence issues who recently stepped down from two senior national security positions, previously helped her father secure at least $12 million from a Russian investment bank that cooperated with the Kremlin, leaked documents show.
Kennedy, a former CIA officer, was involved in the deal in 2009 and 2010 as head of an offshore corporation owned by her father. She was employed as a spy during those years, according to media reporting.
The documents show that as president of the British Virgin Islands-registered Helios Enterprises Limited, Kennedy was involved in an effort on behalf of her father, Hodson Thornber, to pressure a Moscow-based investment bank to fulfill a 2008 agreement to pay roughly $30 million for Helios’ shares in a large Ukrainian agricultural company. The Russian bank, Renaissance Capital, included former senior Russian intelligence officers in its top ranks.
Kennedy told ICIJ that she was appointed Helios’ president as she was preparing to leave government service, and in that position worked with her father to identify investments in consumer technology startups. She said that any involvement she had in the dispute with Renaissance Capital was “pro forma,” and that she “had no knowledge of or involvement in” the dispute or the business project in general.
“I lived in the United States the entire time I worked for Helios and never worked on any deals related to the farm business or Ukraine,” she wrote. “I’ve never met any of the people involved, nor ever visited Ukraine.”
She is also the daughter-in-law of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and managed his 2024 presidential campaign. In one podcast appearance, he called her “the smartest person I’ve ever met.”
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ne, managing over 300,000 acres of farmland. By 2008, Thornber owned roughly 5% of UAFL — a stake he held through Helios.
In November 2008, Renaissance Capital agreed to purchase Helios’ shares in UAFL for roughly $30 million in three installments in 2008 and 2009. The deal came during the global financial crisis, which impaired banks worldwide and plunged Renaissance into crisis.
As the crisis unfolded, Thornber began to pressure the investment bank to make good on its commitment to buy his shares. In January 2009, Kennedy, as president of Helios, wrote to Renaissance Capital to formally request Thornber’s appointment to UAFL’s board of directors, which was Helios’s prerogative under the shareholders agreement.
Thornber said in an interview that he did not remember being appointed to UAFL’s board. Helios was dissolved in May 2025, according to British Virgin Islands corporate records.
According to the documents, Thornber used his position as UAFL director to demand access to correspondence and financial transactions related to his dispute with Renaissance. When the bank took too long to provide access to certain records, he sent his lawyers unannounced to the BVI offices of the firm’s corporate services provider to inspect them.
e, Kennedy replied: “Please, David, get a life.”
